Did you have any idea that Ernest Hemingway used to shoot sharks with a tommy gun while fishing for Florida marlins? Neither did I until I found @weird_hist, a Twitter account that drops random little-known historical tidbits and fascinating images from the past. Each one of @weird_hist’s tweets is a marvelous and surprising gateway to …
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People Argue Over The Longest Possible Route You Could Walk Across Earth
It’s hard to conceptualize in our tiny little brains just how vast Earth and all of its land is. If you’ve ever been on a long distance flight and watched the tiny plane on the screen inch its way across oceans and borders, you’ll know just how strange it feels. In most cases, it is …
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Map Revealing Shark Army on the East Coast Inspires Overwhelmingly Pro-Shark Reactions
When I was a kid my friend was so afraid of sharks that she refused to take a bath. She was convinced that they could somehow infiltrate her pipes, shrink, and then emerge from the bathwater in explosive Jaws fashion. As a kid who spent summers in Cape Cod (a mecca for Great Whites, and possibly …
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15+ Strange And Useless Maps That Laugh In The Face Of Cartography
Drawing a map is as much an art as it is a science. No-one’s going to care where all those countries are unless they look pretty, but it’s also important to put things in the right place, too. We can learn a lot from studying maps, not all of it especially useful — as these …
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25+ Obscure Facts & Snapshots From History
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway used to shoot sharks with a tommy gun while fishing for marlins? Neither did I until I found @weird_hist, a Twitter account that drops random little-known historical tidbits and fascinating images from the past. Each one of @weird_hist’s tweets is a gateway to a historical k-hole. First, you’ll naturally …
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Incredible Thread of Website Suggestions Is a Reminder of How Great the Internet Can Be
Before the world became addicted to ‘likes’ and compulsively checking incessant notifications, the internet was a vast ocean of interesting websites, strange net art projects, and data experiments. It still is, in fact! Maybe we’re just too glued to social media to notice. Thankfully, not everyone has forgotten what a special place the internet can …
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20+ Strange Places With Unbearably Sad Names
It’s a big wide world out there, with a lot of different things in it. Some of these are amazingly beautiful, others a bit more mundane, but all of them need a name. With so many locations out there, it’s inevitable that we have to be somewhat creative with the naming process, unless we want …
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I Guess Iowa’s the Only Safe Place
Can’t trust Mississippi with anything.
Awesome Fan-Made Maps of Westeros and Essos
Kitkat Pecson made these beautiful maps that make Westeros and Essos look like much nicer places to live than they actually are.